phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

unsloth-phi-4

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

38 vs 82

Hardware Fit

100 vs 88

Quality Score

12 vs 80

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec44.027.4

First chunk384 ms457 ms

TTFT385 ms457 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage2.0 GB7.7 GB

Memory %6%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

unsloth-phi-4

Speed

38/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

Reasoning

3/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

2/20

Structured

1/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

2/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

unsloth-phi-4

Reasoning

15/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

13/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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